OPEN hosts Dr. Charles King as Aresty Speaker for 2017 St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs
The 2017 St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs, hosted and co-sponsored by USF St. Peterburg and OPEN, included Charles King, an Aresty Distinguished Speaker. Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University....
OPEN and St. Petersburg College host Pulitzer Journalist Hedrick Smith for conversation on Populist Revolution
Pentagon Papers Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winner whose 1971 expose’ of the Pentagon Papers altered America’s role in the Vietnam War and whose 2013 book presaged the populist movement that helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency, visited USF...
Ambassador Thomas Pickering the Aresty Keynote at 2018 St. Pete Conference on World Affairs
Thomas Pickering, Career Ambassador with over forty years of service to the U.S., headlined the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs annual gathering held on the USF St. Petersburg campus February 20th through Friday February 23rd. In an active sche...
Civility Theme Kicks Off with No Home for Hate Event
OPEN continues to grow conversations about topics that matter in St. Petersburg and beyond. The 2018 year brings two more themes to OPEN – Civility and Frontiers (see related Frontiers posting). The CIVILITY theme brings us together in search of com...
Futurist Roxanne Meadows – There Has to be a better way
The Venus Project – a remarkable vision for a world beyond politics, poverty and war – has been the life work of Jacques Fresco (https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/). And for over 40 years, Roxanne Meadows worked alongside M...
OPEN Invites Thought Leaders to Envision a Season of Enlightenment
The OPEN community across St. Petersburg came together on February 21st at Green Bench Brewery to highlight and thank the many people connected to the 2017 launch of the OPEN thought leader community platform and the 2017 Et Cultura Festival. With frie...
UNESCO leader Kuany Kiir Kuany Builds Common Ground in St.Pete
Students and community members from throughout the Tampa Bay area had the rare opportunity to receive leadership training from an internationally-recognized youth ambassador for peace during Common Ground, a week-long series of initiatives aimed at foster...
NPR’s 1A with Joshua Johnson Hosts National Broadcast Live in St. Petersburg
Open Partnership Education Network and Aresty Family, in collaboration with WUSF Public Media, The Poynter Institute and the The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay presented a live broadcast of NPR’s 1A featuring Aresty Speake...
Aresty Speaker Gilbert King Talks Storytelling and Social Justice
SOLD OUT! Pulitzer Prize winner Gilbert King packs the house. OPEN kicked off it’s 2019-2020 season by selling out the venue for OPEN Aresty Speaker, Gilbert King within 24-hours of launch with a waiting list of over 70 additional people eager to atte...
Media Responsibility in the Age of Disinformation
International journalists spoke at USF St. Petersburg last Thursday about the global trend of fake news and the dangers of reporting on the politically corrupt. “The real question is: What is fake information? And what is fake news?” asked moderator, ...
